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By: Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr.John Weldon; ©2012 If we travel through representative illustrations of spiritistic literature in the last 150 years, we discover a universal denial of biblical Christianity. The following cases illustrate both the subtlety and influence of spiritistic literature in the last century and a half. Contents 1 How Do Channeled Messages…

By: Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr.John Weldon; ©2012 The assumed rationale for Christian dream work is found in four areas: 1) in the claims of secular psychology; 2) in the divine use of dreams in Scripture; 3) in the interest in dreams in church history; 4) in the current use of dreams by some Christian…

By: Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr.John Weldon; ©2012 The study of dreams has a legitimate application in pure research, in some schools of psychology, and perhaps in a few forms of psychotherapy. But even here, doors can open to psychic exploration or spiritism. Contents 1 Dream Work in Psychotherapy 2 NOTES Dream Work in Psychotherapy…

By: Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr.John Weldon; ©2012 We will cite illustrations from a number of modern texts on dreaming and dream work to show how readily dreams can become the means to hazardous spiritual practices, such as inducing altered states of consciousness, developing psychic abilities, or channeling. These phenomena may occur even when they…